This 12 months’s Open Championship will function the longest gap within the event’s historical past after Royal Troon’s sixth was prolonged as a part of moderations for the 152nd version of the main.
The sixth was already a whopping 601 yards when the event was final performed on the Ayrshire hyperlinks in 2016, however this 12 months it would measure 623 yards.
General, the course will play 195 yards longer than in 2016 when Sweden’s Henrik Stenson held off Phil Mickelson in one of many best duels in Open historical past.
After going through one of many longest holes in world golf, this 12 months’s discipline might then be confronted with one of many shortest with the enduring par-three Postage Stamp eighth probably coming in at 99 yards with a ahead tee and pin positioned near the entrance of the inexperienced for one of many 4 rounds.
The Postage Stamp is a brief gap, however by way of spectators, will probably be enormous. An L-shaped grandstand is being constructed that may home 1,500 followers.
This 12 months’s whole attendance is anticipated to be 250,000 — the third highest for an Open, behind solely the one hundred and fiftieth Open at St Andrews in 2022 and the 261,180 who attended Royal Liverpool final 12 months.
